ZIDINDI, SOUTH AFRICA -- A few days after providing basic health advice to a young mother who’d just given birth, community health worker Ncedisa Paul received a frantic phone call from the ...

Children under 5 years of age in Africa are much more likely to die as a direct result of poor health linked to air pollution, unsafe water, lack of sanitation, increased family size, and ...

As for celebrities adopting poor children from Africa, Pertman said there was no reason to be critical or cynical. "They're doing what more Americas all over the country are doing — adopting ...

Surely this is the question that should have preoccupied every administration seeking to build a just society in the more than two decades since we attained liberation. Yet today, a black child in ...

Study: Poor African children face malnutrition risk, while rich kids become obese by University of Birmingham A visual representation of the double burden of child malnutrition across the region.

In Nwanaokwo's case, his poor father and dead mother made him an easy target. "Even churches who didn't use to 'find' child witches are being forced into it by the competition," said Itauma.

Across Africa child marriage stubbornly persists. Of the roughly 700m women living today who were married before they were 18, 125m are African. Among poor rural families like Fatia’s the rate ...

Every Friday afternoon, some South African boys head for the sand dunes that surround Atlantis, a poor area on Cape Town's outskirts where drug gangs operate and shootings occur regularly.

Explore the financial challenges South African parents face in providing quality education for their children, highlighting the importance of education as a survival strategy amidst economic ...